There is a lot of changes since MVC5 regarding error handling. I will show you how to catch and handle some basic errors. Here is a nice article by Krzysztof about error handling in MVC5. First of all let me explain what “middleware” is…. or even better – here is the definition of middleware provided by OWIN from here: Pass through components that form a pipeline between a serv…

If you’ve been following Microsoft announcements about Visual Studio Online over the last 12 months, you already know that you can easili integrate with VSO from any platform, technology, or device. Everything thanks to a new set of of JSON-based REST APIs. Those APIs enable a lightweight way to work with Team Foundation Server from virtually any device, platform, or technology…

APS.NET 5 has introduced new environment variable called ASPNET_ENV. It allows us to control our application behaviour between multiple environments because it’s describing environment on which application is currently working on.

Recently I struggled on my user control trying to make the dependency property be updated when I change the source of the binding. That confirmed my belief that WPF does not forgive any single developer’s mistake.

Just a few years ago there was just few people who known what dependency injection is. Today it is almost everywhere. Recently I’ve discovered that it can be also used in Razor views – thanks to ASP.NET 5. I will try to show you how we can use that feature on few examples bellow. Probably each of you have been populating drop downs in Razor views with data send from controller.…

This post talks about how you can convert Razor views into PDF. There is couple of NuGet packages which we can use to achieve that. I will try to describe couple of them. iTextSharp This library allows us to create documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). Some of the features: - generate documents and reports based on either provided HTML or by manually adding PDF elements …

Change Data Capture is a feature of Sql Server (available since version 2008) which allows to capture all insert, update and delete operations on database tables. Here I am going to show you the simple way of enabling CDC on database, table and specific columns.

In this post I am going to show you a small Entity Framework code first trick. When you remove an entity from the context its state is set to Deleted and all its navigation properties are nulled. This is done by DbContext internally. However you might want to know what was the related entities (navigation properties) before the entity was deleted. For instance you want to create some audit logs of deleted entity. I will show you how to do it with minimal effort.